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Cambridge Five Spy Ring — Part 15

83 pages · May 23, 2026 · Broad topic: Intelligence Operations · Topic: Cambridge Five Spy Ring · 83 pages OCR'd
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a a J a THE TIMES TUESDAY NOVEMBER * 1955 _ . . . ‘an excepuonally good report, in which no j on routine wor Parliament mention was made of hig leftewing views. | |, ment. While he Té the board had known that be had [iment allegatior riod of ave i elt ‘man Jmeltigence ma automatically, be excluded Som the, i investigated, by 4 3 we ENSURING SECURITY IN A cence) Oppetion meni wae aly . urely ik Wi ve yegat le c 3 ings as one of the aberrations ‘of youth, | prospects { at FREE SOCIETY ste one at te-aberatom of 2OHR,| ets, . down, (Laughter.) It was not fair in judg- fit wast ing a man to bring in the atm him to Wa iia er dec eet aca | tome t was important to at tn aig Maclean's appoiniment in Cairo | serous indiscr SIR A. EDEN ACCEPTS INQUIRY = |pisitithesty sPtitret sone | Senge, BY PRIVY COUNCILLORS erly good Dut caanding, SET ie | four ead " contemporaries, Durity the first 14 years fourth grade HOUSE OF COMMONS _ | these incidents, which, had actually een in he service his condi Prout in alro, | 22 Washi Monpay, Nov. 7 ‘observed. Should not the number of obset- | which ‘culminated in a sudden application The Ambas ‘The Sbéaxza took the Chair at half past Vers be increased 60 that they could observe | for sick leave, was at the time interpreted | both on hi e what_was going on jn advance ? 4s the result of a longed. od of | outside, and two o'clock. MR. a s _& prok peri ; MOMACMILLAN said it would be { overwork and strain. his establish FALKLAND DEPENDENCIES best to let General Burns decide how many ‘SECOND CHANCE bis appoin'« MR. JOHN HALL (Wacombe, Co, and | Observers BE RT He was regarded asa valuable member ened WING CMDR. ERIC BU LUS (Wembley, ARTIFICIAL RAIN of the cick, ‘and there was every reason the “ay North, C) asked the Secretary, of State | MR. GEORGE WARD, Under-Secretary | {0 Rapti ‘and to hope that he might make } po rounds for Foreign Atlas ui would make, # | of MR Heer re writien reply, states: { a full recovery from what appeared, tO against the wih chile and. & Set oe Falke Some experiments in cloud seeding have | a, sat of nervous breakdown, and the | been indisc and Toland’ Dependencies. rece) are a vine, caine Foreign, Offer Je aM nceteat te. Gime | Speak 1 MR. TURTON, Under Secretary, Foreign | The uring normal oeontalied by. ihe | tnere was no suspicion as,to bis lovey Fhe! wishe +- | Office (Thirsk and Malton, C.), said that | Meteorological Office and have taken place | tried to see Ne had the right nedical treat- | fairness tc 7 | both the Argentine and Chilean Govern- | over an area where ney itive resulis | ment and a chance of recovery. that af ' ments had informed the International Court | might, have a practical ab well as an experi- ds was casy 10 say with pesent know- cillor, rec. of Justice that they wero unwilling 10 mental value. It is not yet possible to sai ledge that the decision was wong. Perba, ir. Mch accept the jurisdiction of the court in whether any signiGcant Jncrease in rainfall | it was. It was easy to be wee after the | carac his regard to their claims to our Antarctic } can be athleved. event, but he was given a scond chance miffan} fe territories, he step was taken before, the and. at the end of five mons’ mesic this parti of Fr in > ailment, he was t Hwa county, ete, as a BACKGROUND TO | kipetci' doatinety *| LEAT ent ntine i d 1c intment implied ne promotion present Argentine Otude ine atntement TREACHERY for 'himand. ent implied Wr ortunity to ] at the United Nations General Assembly} Cy ASHING IDEOLOGIES watch his conduct and|his heath. At this tjme no suspicion reste on hin. - ‘As soon as he fell under susficion, whish was in the. middle-of April, B51, one af those informed was Sit Roger Makins, now % successful le then ‘on October 3, the Argentine delegate re- peated in general terms the Argentine Government's claims inthe Antarctic. . BURAIMI ACTION JUSTIFIED MONEY AND DOCUMENTS MR. MACMILLAN, Secrets of Stat foe ACM Mata Bromley Co, ink Statement about conditions inthe Buraimi | Oasis, said that since the Ruler of Abu On the motion for the adjournment, MR. MACMILLAN initiated 2 debate on the disappearance of Burgess and He said that it could rarely have happened in the long Parliamentary, history ‘of Britain that th litical head of @ department should have had to unfold to the House so painful a Story. ‘as that which it was their duty to consider. . "To understand, without excusing, that story it was necessary 10 recall the back- ground in the 1930s in which the two principal characters grew, UP. ‘At that time Violent opinions were being expressed, with our distinguished an Ambassador in Washington. w Maclean's immediate chief, being the superintending ‘Under-Secretary of the group in which the depatiment cane, I¢ was, therefore, quite untrue, as had been sus- that ‘Sir Roger ‘Makins was in any Way Fesponsible for the conduct of an inquiry or bad checked or cleard Maclean. ‘That was not the case, and weh a sug- estion was false and grossly unfair to ir Rogen Makins. BURGESS’S RECORD Dhabi and the Sultan of Muscat reasserted _their rights om October 26 the situation i there had been completely Hie and normal, \e autho Aitee referring to the Prime Minister's } the Spanish civil war dividin British and + ‘ ‘ i i ian Government | ticularly disturbing ‘on young people, ° i gi Housed to's repusation of te Arbice | many of whore taought it thew duty 18 a temporary Press, offices in the news, 863 | Ere E ty oni fe part in those revolutionary strugeiss- ini formation, i de brit an 1c last wat began some ol 9 u i. " Baa taken piace amepg the, inhabitants of | who hed ae onaed enurerast wiews found | Eble" bac ave what serene (9 be a respesk ie the disputed area and had clearly rendered | their ideological beliefs ‘exerted & stronger In 1945 he took advantage of the oppor to | any genuine expression of sheic wishes inv: | pull than eit, patio}, et Tho wa | Et ee Ne sO tctaporary officers to apply ft E possible, and Trely upon the attitude of | ended the clash of loyalties, which had | for TOPE een ae che junior bra Prot Hie e Saudi Government lowards the tribunal | becn buried in 194, was revived. for eoreign service, Hi punaated betore a HEP: itself Que position has been fully justified | | Thus it was that men could be found in | Be Fereiee Yoard, who Dep earSmncaded | Pert { by the fuidence obtained as a result of the | Britain who could put the interests of } fim for establishment. In Yorn to the | den" ui 4 gon ‘of the forces of the Ruler of Abu | another oountry before their own, and com- | hoard. they were impressed by his excellent | Pros abiiand the Sultan of Muscat into | mit the horrible crime of afachery, ‘This | DMS, they NOE ie well as by the good | 0 7 Boag Mtn the first place, a large sum | occurred not only among, criminals and | ease they had received SBrerng his eme | Po of money was found in the possession of | degencrates, Dut. in men holding high tcch- | Tiovment in the B.B.C. and in She Foreign | si the Saudi police detachment there, far in | nical crates, Dut ae posts, in men of Philo- | moo news department. However, his in the Foreign Serv e, Many ne had | a'warlime depariment responsible for propa- | 4., seen that service abroad would agree that Britain was fore tunate to have a service of the highest quality, giving most loyal and devoted service ta the Crown and the nation. ‘That Foreign Service regarded the severe blow against its teputation as a personal case, wi had caused a profound shock to Parliament and, the general public-cries yor “Hear, hear.”)}—~at home and abroad. 7 DUNISTERS’ RESPONSIBILITY post. ‘This sum of moncy is being returned To the Saudi Goverament. Secondly, man) documents came into our possession whict BYE ample confirmation of the charges we ave made. MR, GRIMOND (Orkney and Zetland, Tt Lede As it is apparent that on this matter winting WE have an absolutely cast iron cate. and “Re, We are at fast standing up for our friends Me OS sn) of the world, will the Foreign Se nee tee AY. ganda to neutral” counuies ha unsatisfactory. . ‘Te was unfortunately the case that during \ntt $22 MEnd perhaps one could hardl ‘wonder at it—many war departments di ‘porary staff. The fact remained that neither The Foreign Office nor the Civil, Service commission knew of Burgess’s failings, : SEVERE REPRIMAND >, i is by which he was establishes Pomel wal Oeigber, 1947. 18
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